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From: jims@hcrvax.UUCP (Jim Sullivan)
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Subject: re: abc and the cubs, dome stadiums in the end
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Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 23:58:30 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  5 23:58:30 1985
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How about this, IF the Cubs make it to the WS, AND ABC forces all Cub
home games to be played at night, then let's not watch.  I know this
will be tough, but when large corporations start pushing me around, I
get mad.  First the Indy 500, shown 5 hours after the result is known.
Then the 84 Olympics, and now the world series.

Me, I like sports, and I like them 'natural'.  Real grass, with mud and
and sweat and sun.  Baseball should be played on grass, with the sun
shining down and cold beer in the stands (not lite beer).  Football should
has a nip in the air, and when the game is over, the linemen should have
grass stains and mud ground into their uniforms.  People (read announcers)
who tell me that the conditions under a dome are perfect are lying.

Here in Toronto, there is a group called Friends of Outdoor Baseball.  They
are a group of citizens who are dedicated to perserving outdoor baseball
in Toronto, and, I feel, their vocal opposition to a dome stadium in Toronto,
has resulted in a compromise, a dome with a retractable roof.  If this
works, then I'll get baseball AND sunshine, if not, I'm stuck.

So, enough of technology, grass and sunshine and rain and wind are better
conditions to play an outdoor game than the air-conditioned sterile space
of a dome.

Jim Sullivan